Shared storage mount on AWS Windows EC2?

Question

i just ask for opportunities to mount a shared storage in Windows Server 2016 or higher.

So i found a lot of on AWS EFS, EBS, S3

My problem is to install data of a Software in a shared volume.

• EBS is just for local mounting, can i map it on other servers?

• EFS ist not for Windows but my favourite choice, are the solutions to mount it as volume in Windows or i should mount it on Linux first?

• Is S3 mountable to use it like a file system?

What can i use or what is the best solution für shared storing data using cloud technologies

Answer 1

EBS is just for local mounting, can i map it on other servers?

Indeed, you can mount EBS only to a single EC2 instance. However - you can expose the mounted EBS as NFS on the instance

EFS ist not for Windows but my favourite choice, are the solutions to mount it as volume in Windows or i should mount it on Linux first?

I don't think that matters.. (if I'm mistaken, please correct me)

Edit: I stay corrected, AWS EFS from Windows Server 2012 seem you mouting EFS on Windows doesn't work properly. You could mount the EFS on a linux server and expose it as NFS.

Is S3 mountable to use it like a file system?

S3 is not indeded to be mounted as a filesystem and it's not montable by default. If needed, there are 3rd party tools to do that (eg fuse-s3fs on linux), but IMHO it's not the most efficient way.

As well there are solutions from AWS (aws storage gateway) to migrate on-premise content to S3 and back.

Mounting S3 as FS I'd consider mounting S3 only when

• the files are created or read, not updated (S3 doesn't support updating part of an object)
• the objects (files) are to be shared by other services or through internet